As the head of Point Park’s governing body, Julian Singleton addressed his concerns surrounding Pioneer Community Day (PCD) at Monday’s legislative body meeting.

The United Student Government (USG) is looking to form the annual PCD ad hoc committee, which will require the help of both volunteers and USG members.

An ad hoc committee is a committee formed to carry out a specific task or objective. Singleton explained that the PCD ad hoc committee is not a permanent part of USG, and that once its job is completed, it will be disbanded.

The committee will be in charge of planning PCD. The yearly event, organized by USG, aims to get students and faculty involved in service projects in the area by doing a number of tasks such as gardening or litter clean-up.

Because of all the work involved in planning PCD, Singleton encourages all students to join the committee to help out.

“This committee takes dedicated people…it’s a beast. I really want to make this year better than last year,” Singleton said. “In the formation of an ad hoc committee, there can be people on the committee who aren’t in USG.”

Singleton said those interested in joining the committee will be a huge help to lessen some of the workload for the USG chairs.

“Last year we made a binder because so much goes into the day…it can’t be done by one person,” he said. “There’s scheduling to do, as well as getting transportation for people to and from their volunteer site. We have food circulating throughout the day and entertainment as well, so we need people to break those things down.”

Interested students are encouraged to contact USG as soon as possible, either via email or phone.

Also at the USG meeting, Treasurer Thaddeus Covaleski discussed the results of last semester’s budget, while informing the legislative body of his plans for this semester’s budget.

“At the end of the second funding period last semester, we spent about 20 thousand dollars, so therefore we’re about three thousand under what we allocated,” Covaleski said. “That’s a pretty good job.”

Covaleski said that currently, he is unsure of how much money USG has to allocate this semester.

“Once we find out from [Dean Paylo] what we have this semester, we’ll start figuring out what is appropriate to allocate each funding period.”

Until then, the funding budgets from each club for period one are due next Monday, Jan. 19. The hope is that if all budgets are turned in on time, funds can be allocated by Jan. 28.